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While the rest of the presidential candidates make their final efforts to build support in Florida –and momentum for contests to come — Ron Paul has left the state.

Rather than spending his time in Florida, where he lags far behind in last place, the Texas congressman has forged ahead on the campaign trail, focusing his energy and resources on the caucus states of Maine and Nevada in an effort to “get delegates.”

Texas Rep. Ron Paul won two Republican presidential straw polls in Iowa over the weekend at a convention hosted by the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, a group that bills itself as the nation’s oldest and largest GOP volunteer group. …

A day after upstaging a venerable Iowa straw poll by announcing his candidacy in South Carolina, Texas Gov. Rick Perry flew to the Hawkeye State today to court Iowans and blunt the momentum of straw poll winner Michele Bachmann.

In his first public event in the first-in-the-nation presidential caucus state, Perry was to share a stage with Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who has emerged as his chief rival for conservative Iowa voters. It was the start of three days Perry plans to spend in the state that launched then-Gov. George W. Bush of Texas to the presidency with a caucus victory in 2000.